TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2017

On this day in history:

1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation began domestic radio service.

1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked. 1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.

1939 - The world’s oldest dog on record, a Blue Heeler named ‘Bluey’, dies, aged 29 years.

1954 - The Santa Gertrudis cattle breed in Australia is consolidated as a viable industry with the first auction of animals.

1963 - The island of Surtsey, off Iceland, is created by a volcanic explosion.

1973 - Britain’s Princess Anne married a commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1992, and Princess Anne remarried. 1983 - The British government announced that US-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.

1988 - Israeli President Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government. 1991 - After 13 years in exile Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland.

1994 - US experts visited North Korea’s main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections. 2001 - War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.

2003 - Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object. 2008 - The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.

2012 - Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.